Tea Shurghaia
Tea Shurgaia is a head of the Department of Iranian Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She is an Associate Professor of the same institute.Tea Shurgaia's research interests are: paremiology, modern Persian literature, Georgian-Persian literary relations, and issues of the theory and practice of literary translation. She is the author of the monograph and more than 40 scientific works. Tea Shurgaia systematically participates in international conferences as well as in foreign and national grant projects.
Tea Shurgaia is a translator of modern Persian prose. She translated into Georgian the works by Goli Taraghi, Mohammad-Ali Eslami Nodooshan, Zoya Pirzad, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Iraj Pezeshkzad and others. Tea Shurgaia was awarded the Cultural Medal of Shahriyar (IR of Iran).